IDG Contributor Network: IBM, Lenovo and Cisco take top marks in server reliability

The same handful of companies won the sweeps again this year in the Information Technology Intelligence Consulting (ITIC) global survey of datacenter server reliability. IBM, Lenovo, and Cisco took top marks, while Oracle fared particularly poorly, based on an aging hardware base and defections to other platforms. Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Toshiba, Fujitsu and Stratus had mixed results.The study, executed a year ago and updated in May 2017, was undertaken without vendor sponsorship. The survey